believes we are close to finding the ultimate renewable energy, and with it humanity’s ticket out of climate chaos. Photosynthesis – the subject of this fascinating and beautifully written book – holds the secret. The key, he says, is to concentrate on the direct conversion of solar energy into electricity or fuel, and fund work on a whole range of solar conversion technologies. He has in mind a 21st-century , the wartime scientific collaboration that produced the atomic bomb in 1945. Essential reading.
HarperCollins
